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Thanks, Steve. France does seem to have been the earliest to abandon the medial s, but I never thought to distinguish between italic and the others. The difference is abrupt at 1800 just about everywhere - but I wonder how handwriting changed? In very old stuff people used the medial s just like in ...

Beautiful. Thanks, Steve. I'm wondering about the "1788" date though; none of the text, except for a tiny subscript on the last (information) sheet, uses the medial s (long s). I could be wrong in this, it could be that some French presses started using the normal "s" everywhere already in the 1780s...

{I think, but am not sure, that most studies tracing the four holy animals back to the Babylonians is fairly modern too} Looking for the source of Ezekiel's imagery in Babylon is natural, since it was there that he had his visions and gave his prophecy. This historical approach no doubt only began ...

That would make sense only as a supreme act of deception on the part of Filippo Maria Visconti,... as he surely would not have countenanced a commoner like Francesco Sforza as Duke. Of course that possibility would never have entered his mind, since he never intended the Duchy to go to his daughter...

I'm not convinced Thoh is a weird spelling of Thoth . All variations of the name from classical sources contain the final "t", so even "Thot" would be normal, but I am not aware of any with an additional "h". I'm thinking of the substitution with Azoth . My first thought was the Latinate and Renaiss...

Is there any evidence that the Dendera Zodiac was even known in the west, prior to the Napoleonic expeditions? Not to my knowledge. Why would any European at that time have taken a 700 km trip southward along the Nile? This is real exploring. Europeans stuck to the Mediterranean coast, with Cairo a...

On my computer Ross's article, which he posted at http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1216&sid=caff7d800247588356935afed66fcc7c&start=20#p19828 is now removed "due to copy enfringement". Does that mean that any article published in The Playing Card is condemned to the relative oblivi...

Yes, it is a great shame about the loss of dating on AE posts -- not sure where I got 2003 from, but if If you search on google, it dates the thread Jul 7, 2003 -- so I possibly saw that searching, though I didn't register it If you go to the page however, and view source - July 7, 2003 appears to ...